438 



them from a locality a little more to the north (now in the 



Riksmuseum at Stockholm). 



Similar sledge keels of bone are also known from the 



more westerly Eskimo districts. In Baffin Land the Eskimo 

 shoe their sledges with keels consisting of 

 several pieces of flat whalebone, which is fast- 

 ened under the runners with tree-nails^). The 

 same thing is true of the Point Barrow Eskimo 

 in North Alaska, whose sledges in other re- 

 spects are pretty different in type from the 

 Greenland ones^). 



Inv. Amd. 69 (Fig. 41) from Dunholm is 

 a fragment of a kaiak-scraper of bone (cf. the 

 following number). It is a long, flat, thin piece 

 of bone from 16 to 17 cm in length, of a dark- 



^K' ^^' ^t^ scraper brown colour. One of its edges is bevelled, 

 of bone. Fragment. ° ' 



Dunholm. i /з. probably due to wear. The pointed tip is un- 

 common in this kind of implements. 



Inv. Amd. 70 (Fig. 42) from Cape Tobin is a very typical, 

 beautifully worked kaiak-scraper, or bone knife for scraping the 



Fig. 42. Ice scraper of bone. Cape Tobin, '/з. 



ice off the kaiak skin, and thus an accessory for the kaiak. 



It is 31 cm long and 8'5 cm broad at the back end of the blade 



It is made of a single heavy piece of bone, of a light-grey 

 colour. 



1) Boas 1, 530; Turner 242. 



2) Murdoch I, 353; Nelson 206. 



